BELLA HUDSON - Cold In Colorado - Independent Release

While her breakthrough singles “Your Mom” and “Goodwill Hunting” were solid showcases that delivered memorable lyrics and ear catching melodies, singer/songwriter Bella Hudson has impressively elevated her craftmanship to an entirely new level in 2023.

She leaned on pure vulnerability to open her diary on the cleverly worded “Bettin’ On A Stetson,” and now returns with what might be the brightest shining spotlight of her songwriting expertise on “Cold In Colorado.” 

Pulling inspiration from her home state, the song in which she co-wrote with Ben Williams and Zarni de Vette leans into a soft pace that allows Hudson to place her emotionally threaded vocals in the forefront, wavering her voice through the letting go process.

Arriving at the hard truth that try as you might to change someone and their bad habit of breaking hearts, yours is simply the next in line to be broken, Bella uses the opening verse to craftily weave through a list of impossibilities that can’t ever be accomplished - growing a pine tree out of the desert sand, taking a breath under water, or painting the blue sky, red.  

Through very strong comparatives in the chorus, she painstakingly balances each “Colorado” painted juxtaposition against the realities she’s found within having to accept the truth of what she had wanted to work out so badly with the facts of why it can’t:

“The Rockies will always be mountains

And you’ll only think about yourself

Denver will always be a mile high

You’ll always be bad for my health

There’s gonna be a new girl in your Silverado

It’s just what you do

Can’t change the cold in Colorado

I can’t change you”

As much as this sings like an open letter to who she’s moving on from, its underlying tones are clearly directed at herself as she faces the mirror, lamenting that she can’t turn him into who he doesn’t want to be as she powerfully tears her future from her past when she admits that she’s done trying to make something work that isn’t going to, “think I’ll just give up this time.”

Bella Hudson has been building her budding career one precise step at a time, releasing songs that stay on repeat while performing on high profile songwriters rounds across town. However, as all the perfect ingredients that make up her signature attributes have now mix together on “Cold In Colorado,” Hudson has just boldly stepped out of from pack and into artist to watch territory heading toward 2024.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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